by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 16, 2022 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years. More recently I have been warning you for the last few years about the myriad of scams involving cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. In the last couple of years a new scam combining the romance scam and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 15, 2022 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission has issued it biennial report to Congress about the National Do Not Call list. Since it began in 2003, the National Do Not Call list has grown to include more than 244 million phone numbers. When you register your phone number with the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 14, 2022 | Scam of the day
Navient, one of the largest student loan servicing companies in the United States has reached a tentative settlement of lawsuits brought by the Attorneys General of thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia. According to the terms of the settlement which still...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 13, 2022 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently reported that in the first nine months of 2021, consumers lost 148 million dollars to scams in which gift cards were used as the payment method. This amount was more than in all of 2020. Scammers are big fans of gift cards...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 12, 2022 | Scam of the day
While attendance at movie theaters generally continues to be dramatically reduced from pre-pandemic levels, in-theater attendance at the new “Spiderman: No Way Home” movie is breaking box office records around the world. Unlike Marvel...
